What are good spells against demons?

[Argitoth]

Now, there's a few spells that say they are good against undead, such as solar rays. Is that spell also good against Daemons? What else is good against demons?

What about Arcane Bolt which says it's good against magical beings?

[vfb]

Banishment is good, but depending on what kind of demons you are up against, there may be trouble getting past high demon MR, so you might need H3 casters for it to be effective.

Elemental spells of a non-resisted (or vulnerable) type will work well too, like Falling Frost on Devils. Death spells are good too, like Shadow Blast, if you have a high enough level caster to get past MR issues.

[Argitoth]

will 3 death shadow blast casters boosted +3 death levels from communion master be good?

While your at it, can you tell me how long it takes for 275 human-sized units to destroy a 700 defense castle?

[vfb]

Sounds good, but you want some chaff too for the demons to run up against. Undead chaff would be ideal, since they'd be unaffected by the blasts. If it's Devils or other units with flight, you want chaff on the ground, not skelly-spam, to block the demons from flying over to your mages in the first round of combat. Enough chaff on the ground will also prevent W9 Palankashas on attack rear from getting to your mages too.

[Gregstrom]

Your castle question is actually nearly unanswerable. Are the attackers actually humans rather than size-2 units with 15 strength? Are any of them fliers? How many defenders are in the castle, and do any of them fly, and are any mindless?

If they're basic humans with 10 strength though, and the castle is undefended (bar, say, 20 troops or so to lean on the gate), 3 turns. If there are 175 humans inside, reckon on 7 turns of sieging.

[ano]

Argigoth, why do you dislike my nation so much?)) You never even met me and maybe never will. Why are you so aggressive?)
As for the castle, I will answer you. If I want, I will break down those walls in 2-3 turns, believe me. However you should think of arco as of much bigger threat to your friend's walls. He will break them down very quickly too, believe me.

[Argitoth]

Ano, you are too confused. You have nothing to do with this thread. How on earth could I attack you right now? Not only is Tir na n'Og in the way of you, Yomi is my daemon problem.

If I could attack anyone, I'd be attacking Arco, not you, Lanka. Do you know that both water nations are against me right now? I'm having to deal with water nations that keep popping in and out of the water plus Yomi's super-combatant daemons. If the water nations weren't on me, I'd be sending all my forces to Yomi and Arco.

[ano]

I just forgot about another demonic nation))))

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Argitoth said:
Ano, you are too confused. You have nothing to do with this thread. How on earth could I attack you right now? Not only is Tir na n'Og in the way of you, Yomi is my daemon problem.

If I could attack anyone, I'd be attacking Arco, not you, Lanka. Do you know that both water nations are against me right now? I'm having to deal with water nations that keep popping in and out of the water plus Yomi's super-combatant daemons. If the water nations weren't on me, I'd be sending all my forces to Yomi and Arco.

If you're fighting SC Demons, not a Demon army, then you might be better off staying away from all the AOE spells I mentioned like Shadow Blast.

Against SCs, high-precision spells are better than big AOE spells. Disintegrate/Lightning Bolt/Frozen Heart/Soul Slay etc, depending on what you've got and his resistances.

If you can summon units faster than he can kill them that will work too, especially if he's gaining fatigue. If he's using Soul Vortex, he can't leech off of skelly spam.

[cleveland]

It's funny that Smite Demon hasn't been mentioned...